‘Burham once advocated for “taking control of the climate narrative from those steering it in the wrong direction and turning it around”’ www.thenewworld.co.uk/suna-erdem-e...

“In February water cascaded down a local bike lane like an Alpine stream, the pipe took a week to be fixed, then burst again. Yet you’re telling me I can’t spritz my flowers?” Janice Turner www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

“What is unclear is how many of the recommendations were adopted before the grid came under severe strain on June 23, though Neso says the recommendations are being implemented” www.thetimes.com/uk/environme...

‘Centrica warns the Rough facility in the North Sea will shut by April without government intervention, as falling customer contacts trigger redundancies’ www.thetimes.com/business/com...

“The Americanisation of the World Cup is now complete” www.thetimes.com/culture/musi...

“His vision was gradually to reform Reform until it became a broader party of the right. Now he has panicked and abandoned this idea in order to retain his base and cover up his behaviour. In Clacton all he is fighting is the ruin of what he once wanted to be” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

“The whole world has seen that, faced with drawing back or escalating in a global crisis, Trump will back away” ‘Trump is flailing while Iran calls the shots’ www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

“Starts in the middle of May, goes on usually till the end of September… so appallingly common, summer just doesn’t know when to leave. It’s drunk and it’s tired and it looks terrible, all blown out and haggard but on it goes, long after everyone has had enough” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Oh my, this is quite a shock ‘Police launch murder investigation over death of Ann Widdecombe’ www.thetimes.com/uk/article/a...

“We were treated to an exciting new form of eulogy, one in which the dead man reads it himself and becomes ever more furious about no longer being alive “Government of Nigel by Nigel and for Nigel” Tom Peck www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“The United States increasingly feels like a country overwhelmed by history, smothered by a past it can neither face nor overcome “Here’s the thing about Trump. Nobody can say that he is un-American. He is all too American” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“The last time a majority thought the US was on the right track was almost two decades ago, in those halcyon days when Prince Philip was still cracking mocking jokes about the place.” “A republic, if you can keep it,” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

Media always blames the ECHR. Stop blaming Human Rights. Government lawyers can also get a fucking grip and present a better argument

“We are dividing the UK again, not on cultural or class lines but along a narrow geographical thread” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

‘The long and short of it is that we need to be able to properly defend ourselves and our allies from Russia, not go “well, we need to turn up at a Nato summit saying we’ve hit a GDP target”.’ @stephenkb.bsky.social on ‘Keir Starmer’s ineffective defence investment plan’ www.ft.com/content/0ed9...

“There is, in the midst of all this desperation, hope. Because an English degree is the only degree that teaches you real humanity. Or indeed anything genuinely worth knowing at all” Giles Coren ‘At last, a PM who can fire up the canon’ www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

*And people love us! Everybody is talking about us! Maybe it’s Makerfield. Or maybe it’s Maybelline* ‘Our Week: Andy Burnham’s eyelashes* *according to Hugo Rifkind’ www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“Burnham needs a chancellor who will do what he thinks necessary for the British economy, no matter how unpalatable that recipe tastes to sections of the left “If the new prime minister wants to overturn Treasury orthodoxy his chancellor will need drive and grip” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

“What a referendum creates, by definition, is a responsibility gap” @hugorifkind.bsky.social www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

“And over the full run since the first prime minister in 1721 there is no evidence that tenure is getting shorter over time. Instead we have long periods of stability punctuated by short periods of turmoil”

Starmer is a single data point… Any analysis of why Starmer was forced out must surely take at least some account of why all these other leaders departed. You don’t have seven prime ministers in ten years by accident” www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

“This, to be clear, is a man who in the not so distant future, is likely to have to write the letters of last resort to Britain’s nuclear submarine commanders, the one that contain instructions to follow in the event that Britain no longer exists” Tom Peck www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

Magic Money Tree

“If countries could be psychoanalysed, we might identify a classic case of “projection”… Frankly, if any country is an unrecognisable basket case it is America” @j-amesmarriott.bsky.social ‘Americans love to bash Britain. That’s their problem, not ours’ www.thetimes.com/comment/colu...

‘There was a time when voters would have given a newly elected PM a few years to turn things around… But, sighs one, “This is not an age of substance, it’s an age of sheen – and he was just not very good at that.”’ @jonathanfreedland.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...

Daniel Finkelstein: Starmer created no narrative, so one of failure was written for him www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

“Why in god’s name would someone who is fundamentally uninterested in politics end up as prime minister? It’s just too weird. It’s like me becoming a football manager” @iandunt.bsky.social ‘The tragedy of Keir Starmer’ iandunt.substack.com/p/the-traged...